All Governance articles – Page 28
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News
Expertise key to exploiting multi-asset solutions
Schemes looking to multi-asset strategies to generate positive cash flow while derisking may have to turn to specialist managers to reduce their potentially significant governance burden.
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OpinionHow is climate change affecting scheme investments now?
As world leaders are now more intent on fighting global warming, BMO Global Asset Management’s Vicki Bakhshi explains why and how investors can best act to align investments with environmental goals.
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Opinion
Proposed trusteeship diploma gets mixed response
The Pensions Management Institute and the Association of Professional Pension Trustees have announced the launch of a joint consultation to introduce a Diploma in Pension Trusteeship to improve trustee education and standards of scheme governance.
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OpinionRaising standards of trusteeship
As we continue to develop our support for the 21 century trustee, it is clear many are doing a great job in challenging circumstances. These trustees are setting enviable standards of best practice.
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Opinion
Ensuring standards for professional trustees
The number of schemes that use professional trustees has ballooned in recent years, but there is still no formal certification to qualify someone as a professional trustee. Tim Middleton explains what the PMI is doing to help.
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NewsLGPS calls for details of government intervention
Local government pension experts have called on the government to give more details regarding controversial plans to introduce intervention powers for the secretary of state over investment decisions.
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OpinionThe future is not what it used to be
From the blog: Last month some 130 world leaders travelled to New York to formally sign the Paris Agreement, sending a powerful signal to the investment community that now is the time to shift assets towards the low-carbon economy.
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OpinionPutting the ‘trust’ in mastertrusts
From the blog: Like the proverbial three bears, regulators face criticism if they deviate from carefully calibrated positions. Too ‘hot’ and undue costs could be placed on industry. Too ‘cold’ and consumers’ protection can suffer.
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FeaturesNationwide targets 30% in illiquids
The Nationwide Pension Scheme is struggling to find suitable illiquid investments as it targets 30 per cent of its portfolio in the assets, the scheme’s chief investment officer has said.
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NewsLloyds Banking Group drives efficiency with single trustee board
Lloyds Banking Group has merged the trustee boards of three of its defined benefit pension funds to boost efficiency, decrease duplication and strengthen its relationship with the schemes.
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Features
Environment Agency Pension Fund shakes up investment monitoring
The Environment Agency has released information about its investment process, emphasising a move away from more traditional benchmarking and quarterly reporting in favour of monitoring fundamentals and ad-hoc reporting.
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Features
Strathclyde joins antibiotics campaign as investors up engagement
The Strathclyde Pension Fund is one of 54 institutional investors that have launched an engagement campaign aimed at stopping overuse of antibiotics in the supply chains of corporations in the UK and US.
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News
PE investors threaten to sell over transparency concerns
Private equity is experiencing a renaissance, but nearly a third of institutional investors may abandon their plans to invest over fears about transparency, a new report shows.
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Opinion
What the latest IGC reports tell us
Analysis: For as long as the term 'independent governance committee' has been floating around the pensions industry there have been questions about how they will work.
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NewsRoyal London publishes first IGC report but independence questions remain
Royal London has become the first provider to release an independent governance committee report, providing key insights into how committees are defining value for money and dealing with legacy pension schemes.
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OpinionFossil fuels: To divest or not to divest?
AllenbridgeEpic Investment Advisers’ Karen Shackleton looks at the arguments in favour and against divestment from fossil fuel companies.
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News
Regulation and markets force schemes to step up on governance
Efforts to cope with a combination of market volatility and demographic shift towards an older population are causing pension schemes to re-examine and improve their governance structures, research from State Street this week showed.
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OpinionA trustee’s duties in the era of freedom and choice
Nest Corporation’s Otto Thoresen seeks answers to the question of what the scope of trustee duties might be since the introduction of freedom and choice.
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NewsIndustry concern over government's 'dangerous' ESG proposals
A proposal that would empower the government to intervene in local government pension investment decisions where they contradict British foreign policy has raised concern in the pensions industry.
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Behind the painted veil: How transparency influences retirement outcomes
The pensions industry must address conflicts of interest ingrained across its systems, delegates heard at the transparency symposium last week, as the Financial Conduct Authority clamps down on the asset management industry.